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First Look: Slatnar Touring Bindings

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Gavin Hess

Slatnar's new touring binding. Slotting nicely into the well featured, 300g category.

Slatnar's new touring binding. Slotting nicely into the well featured, 300g category.

A Brief History Of Slatnar Slatnar may be new on the ski touring scene, but the company has a 50-year history in metalworking and carbon parts and, in the last 20 years or so, has been a leading ski jumping brand. The Slatnar family has run the company in Slovenia since 1972. As I’m sure…

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  1. Teague Holmes

    Fantastic review Gavin.
    So cool to see a small, fine machinist and ski equipment company, make such a beautifully simplistic design. It does look and sound very solid and well-made. And with that being said, I’m surprised it only has a release value up to 10 I’ll bet the binding itself could handle 12 or 14. But not 18. That’s right out.
    (I only shred the gnar. Exclusively.)
    Because they come from a long history of building, reliable ski, jumping bindings, and that they are a small machining company from a place I must visit, I would pick up a pair if they had a higher release value. Thanks for finding and writing!

    1. Gavin Hess

      Hey Teague! It will be interesting to see if Skimo has put the Slatnar in their binding testing rig. As we know at this point, one companies 10 isn’t always the same as another’s.

      Anecdotally, Slator and I spent a day last week ski testing at Snow King in dense, damp powder–I prereleased from an RV 12 Ski Trab slashing in the dense snow on the Fischer Transalp 105, but stayed in through many similar maneuvers on the Slatnar. Similarly, I find that a RV10 trofeo, or other atk’s set to 10 lead to frequent lateral prerelease at the heel. Again, my experience thus far is anecdotal at best, and maybe I don’t shred the gnar as hard as you, but I have been building confidence that the retention here is “plenty”.

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